Hannah Arendt (2012)

Axel Milberg: Heinrich Blücher

Quotes 

• Hannah Arendt : How can you leave me like that? No hug, no kiss?

  Heinrich Blücher : Never disturb a great philosopher when they're thinking.

  Hannah Arendt : But they can't think without kisses.

• [last lines] 

  Hannah Arendt : Everyone is trying to prove me wrong. But no one noticed my one real mistake. Evil cannot be both banal and radical at once. Evil is only ever extreme. It's never radical. Only good can be profound and radical.

  Heinrich Blücher : Would you have written about the trial if you'd known what would happen?

  Hannah Arendt : Yes. I would have written about it. Maybe I had to find out who my real friends were.

  Heinrich Blücher : Kurt was your friend. He still would be.

  Hannah Arendt : Kurt was my family.

• Thomas Miller : So, I see you were all students of the confounding Martin Heidegger.

  Heinrich Blücher : Oh, I didn't even finish High School.

  Thomas Miller : But, aren't you a professor at Bard?

• Hannah Arendt : Miller begged me to take over another class. Someone's ill or getting a divorce or something typically American like that. My head's spinning as it is.

  Heinrich Blücher : You have to learn to say no. But only to others, of course.

• Hannah Arendt : He considered himself an obedient servant of Germany who had to obey the Fuhrer's orders. "My loyalty is my honor." The Fuhrer's orders became the law. He didn't feel guilty in the sense of the indictment. He behaved according to the law.

  Hans Jonas : Hannah, it's been proven that Eichmann pursued the Final Solution even after Himmler had long since forbidden it. And why? He wanted to finish *his* work.

  Heinrich Blücher : Don't you see that every law, every commandment was turned upside down. It was not "Thou shalt not kill," but "Thou must kill." To do your duty, goodness was a temptation you had to resist.

  Hans Jonas : Great. So no one is responsible or guilty. Every sane person knows murder is wrong.

• Heinrich Blücher : Dearest. Don't cry.

  Hannah Arendt : I spoke to the doctor. He said you only have a fifty percent chance.

  Heinrich Blücher : Don't forget the other fifty percent.

• Hannah Arendt : Why was Hans so furious with me?

  Heinrich Blücher : He's in love with you. Has been ever since he was a student.

  Hannah Arendt : Nonsense.

  Heinrich Blücher : He hates Heidegger more for stealing your heart than for joining the Party.

  Hannah Arendt : Then he should hate you even more.

  Heinrich Blücher : Maybe he does.

• Hannah Arendt : All just a tempest in a tea cup.

  Heinrich Blücher : This is no tempest. It's a hurricane, Hannah.

• Heinrich Blücher : Celebrating my health is exhausting.

  [spanks Hannah's fanny as she passes] 

  Heinrich Blücher : I'm off to bed.

  [Hannah sighs, sits down, lights a cigarette]